the president and the pretenders

on his inauguration as the 15th president of the republic, president noynoy was surrounded by more than half a million supporters and more than a handful of pretenders...

#1. gma, on her last march as prez, pretended it was halloween. that should explain why the crowd kept boo-ing.

#2. gma pretended not to see p-noy's extended hand to assist her while going up and down the platform. she was, after all, a little girl no more. huh?

#3. binay pretended to be the president that he secretly wanted to be by accidentally being the last person to come up the stage. what protocol?

#4. ogie alcasid pretended to dance to his self-made noy jingle. the song is not danceable, fyi. it's not even singable.

#5. chief justice corona pretended not to hear the president when he railed about midnight appointees. why not, it could just be his alibi not to resign.

#6. erap pretended to be deaf when p-noy lambasted corruption in government. or maybe he was simply blind.

#7. the megastar pretended to like the queen-of-all-media-turned-presidential-sister in a big way. she must want her hubby to bag the senate presidency so badly.

ironically, it was kris, the showbiz aquino, who had no energy for charades that fateful day. no more james and their sham of a marriage. just a glum look on her face that even her brother's moment of glory could not erase.

image grabbed from here.

debt comes for the archbishop

noynoy aquino has been getting a lot of unsolicited advice lately. today he got one from archbishop oscar cruz who oppines that it would be wrong for the new president to heed the recommendation, also unsolicited i bet, of his sister who happens to be the queen of all media to assign government posts to boy abunda, dingdong dantes and ogie alcasid to whom the aquino family, well, as you and me know, owes a debt of gratitude.

i think the key word here is separation: one, separation of church and state, which the devout philippine populace has made a mockery of ever since its inception; and two, that of showbiz and politics, which is a mockery in itself.

just my, uh, unsolicited two cents, mr. president.

image manipulated from photos grabbed from here and here.

boynoy

without her having to admit it, any not-so-stupid head would know that it was her. who else will have the gall to tell noy to make boy tourism secretary? mar roxas and the liberals? conrado de quiros? come on.

with due respect to mr. abunda—i bet he's got a pair of clean hands that most public officials cannot claim to have—baby sister krissy should just shut up. her brother just landed the hottest seat in the land. there is absolutely no need for her to make it hotter than hottest.

image manipulated from photos grabbed from boy here, here and here.

bye bye, krissy

"i made a promise to noy that if he wins, i will leave the country and work abroad." — kris aquino

so fb is once more abuzz. volunteerism is at work again. somebody proposed to take care of organization. another, the food. still another, the invites. and all kris has to do is show up and pay for the tab, of course.

kris aquino's despedida. all haters invited.

but then again, promises are made to be broken. so bear with her unbearable presence or, to quote krissy, "leave the country".

daily hate dose

kris aquino is reportedly taking a break from her teleserye to help her brother campaign. i think she should try helping primetime audiences as well by giving them a much-needed respite from bad acting. now, if you have this fear about your hater energy ebbing in the absence of daily stimulus from ms. aquino, have your fill during lunch instead. i bet the number one endorser of her kuya's fiercest rival wouldn't be such a bad replacement.